News (Media Awareness Project) - US TX: East Side Slaying First Cartel Hit In El Paso |
| Title: | US TX: East Side Slaying First Cartel Hit In El Paso |
| Published On: | 2009-06-04 |
| Source: | El Paso Times (TX) |
| Fetched On: | 2009-06-08 04:02:14 |
EAST SIDE SLAYING FIRST CARTEL HIT IN EL PASO
EL PASO -- A man shot and killed outside his home in an upscale East
Side neighborhood last month was a midlevel member of the Juarez drug
cartel, El Paso police said Wednesday.
The unsolved homicide of Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana is the first
suspected cartel-related killing in El Paso since a war among drug
suppliers erupted in Juarez last year.
El Paso police detectives are investigating a possible drug link to
the death of Gonzalez, 37, who was shot eight times the night of May
15 while walking to his home in the 1300 block of Pony Trail Place.
Police Chief Greg Allen said residents should not fear that the
rampant shootings and murders in Mexico are spilling into El Paso.
"From Day One, I always said if anything does happen, it will be very
target specific," Allen said. "They will not be randomly shooting at people."
Police said Gonzalez might have been approached by a man who shot him
with a handgun on the small street near Pellicano Drive and Loop 375.
The shooter might have had an accomplice.
The lethal wound was to Gonzalez's chest. He also was hit in his left
thigh, and received several grazing wounds, the El Paso County chief
medical examiner said. Gonzalez was dead on arrival at Thomason Hospital.
Gonzalez, a Mexican citizen involved in the trucking business, lived
in El Paso with his family, police said. His family could not be
reached for comment.
Gonzalez lived in a $366,000 house he bought in April 2008, according
to El Paso property records.
It is a two-story home with a swimming pool.
Police have not released any description of the shooter.
"As far as whether the suspects are here from El Paso or from across
the border, we don't know," police spokes man Javier Sambrano said.
More than 2,200 people have been killed in the Juarez area since
January 2008, mostly because of a crime wave unleashed by a war
between the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels.
Eighteen homicides occurred last year in El Paso, and four have
occurred this year.
Anyone with information may call police at 832-4400 or Crime Stoppers
of El Paso at 566-8477.
EL PASO -- A man shot and killed outside his home in an upscale East
Side neighborhood last month was a midlevel member of the Juarez drug
cartel, El Paso police said Wednesday.
The unsolved homicide of Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana is the first
suspected cartel-related killing in El Paso since a war among drug
suppliers erupted in Juarez last year.
El Paso police detectives are investigating a possible drug link to
the death of Gonzalez, 37, who was shot eight times the night of May
15 while walking to his home in the 1300 block of Pony Trail Place.
Police Chief Greg Allen said residents should not fear that the
rampant shootings and murders in Mexico are spilling into El Paso.
"From Day One, I always said if anything does happen, it will be very
target specific," Allen said. "They will not be randomly shooting at people."
Police said Gonzalez might have been approached by a man who shot him
with a handgun on the small street near Pellicano Drive and Loop 375.
The shooter might have had an accomplice.
The lethal wound was to Gonzalez's chest. He also was hit in his left
thigh, and received several grazing wounds, the El Paso County chief
medical examiner said. Gonzalez was dead on arrival at Thomason Hospital.
Gonzalez, a Mexican citizen involved in the trucking business, lived
in El Paso with his family, police said. His family could not be
reached for comment.
Gonzalez lived in a $366,000 house he bought in April 2008, according
to El Paso property records.
It is a two-story home with a swimming pool.
Police have not released any description of the shooter.
"As far as whether the suspects are here from El Paso or from across
the border, we don't know," police spokes man Javier Sambrano said.
More than 2,200 people have been killed in the Juarez area since
January 2008, mostly because of a crime wave unleashed by a war
between the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels.
Eighteen homicides occurred last year in El Paso, and four have
occurred this year.
Anyone with information may call police at 832-4400 or Crime Stoppers
of El Paso at 566-8477.
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